Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-15

were H. c.l. to admir-" him 4, much 4S
Nou DO Holm Hood. and more than You
do JacN >acppard.'
"Oh. Mr.. Rayner." | said, joining in
his laughter, now absurd, But it is
100 bad for YOU to make fun of my
logic. cant put it properly; but
what mean is this: In those days the
laws Were unjust. so that even good
men were forced into defiance of them;
but now that the laws are really. upon
the whole. fair. it is only wicked pco-
Pile who di>ohey them.
Then YOU don like wicked people.
Miss ChTi>tir?'
Oh. Mr.. Ravner. of course not |
wouldn't speak to wicked person if |
knew it.
- But YOU can't. You won't be able
to tell them from the good ones. except
that they are nicer; ard by the time You
find they are wicked YOU will like them
too much to 90 back. ="
You are quite mistaken in me, in
deed. | can prove it to You by some
thing that happened to me not very
long ago. | knew person against
whom | had heard nothing, who al
ways seemed to me to look good-nat-
ured and simple. And then | found
out that he was really most wicked
man: and when l saw him after that.
his very face seemed changed to me. to
look evil and cunning; and the sight Of
him made me shrink"
was thinking of Tom Parkes and
the change had seemed to see in him
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me keenly while said this; but was
not afraid of his finding out whom l
meant in such a cautious statement.
And what would you do, if. in the
course of your career as a gOverness,
you found yourself in family of whose
morals you can not approve? Would
you give them lectures on the errors of
their ways and try to convert them all
round. Miss Christie?"
"Oh, no, | couldn't do thatr' said
humbly. IF | found myself among
very dreadful people, should just run
away back to my uncle's house, where
my mother lives, on the first oppor-
tunity. l should be horribly afraid Of
them"
"Well, child, l hope you will never
have to do any thing so desperate as
that; but the profession of teaching has
its dangers for beautiful woman he
said. gravely.
The last words gave shock to me.
l had never heard them applied to me
before, and for a moment l was with
out an answer. He got up and came
toward ME, when a shrill cry as from
out of the ground caused him to start.
1t was the only sound that ever drew
forth such display of ordinary human
weakness from self-possesscd Mr.. Ray
ner. 1t came from the lips of his baby
daughter Mona, who, ragged, dirty and
withered-looking as usual; had walked
or crawled through the mud and rushes
till she had silently taken her place in
the long grass little way from us, and
who now, seeing her father approach.
had given vent to her extraordinary
dislike of him in her usual undutifu
manner.
For one moment saw in the dusk a
look pass over Mr.. Rayner's face which
made me catch my breath; and, quickly
as it passed and gave place to light
laugh, it had frightened me and made
me long to escape. Mona was an ex-
cuse.
''Oh, you naughty little girl to be
out so late at highland without hat!
Sarah must have forgotten you. Come
Imust take you IN now. Be good
girl. and come with me-"
Mona had somehow come to regard
me with less animosity than she did
most of the household So she let me
take her in my arms and gave only one
more yell when her father shook hands
with me and accidentally touched her
dirty little shoe. gave her to Sarah
in the hall; then went into the school
room, and, moved by some spring OF
vanity, took my candle to the mantel-
piece and looked at myself in the glass
above it.
AS l looked at my dark gray eyes
brighter than usual, and remembered
that Mr.. Rayner had spoken of me az
beautiful woman, my cheeks flushed
with gratified vanity, and the thought
that flashed though my mind was:
"Does Mr.. Laurence Reade think me
beautiful.
had not noticed was not alone in
the room until harsh, ironical voice
broke the silence:
Eyes, it's pretty face enough now.
and yon do right to set store by it. fol
it won't last very long-not long; in q
} few years it will be all lines and wrin-
} kles, and not worth looking at; and
you'll tuln away in disgust from the
glass, thinking of how Won used to
look. and how the men used to look a
J you-the fools!''
l had turned, and was looking q
Sarah's hard, cruel face as she stood
with Moda still in her arms, her eye
flashing scornfully on ME as she hisse'
out the spiteful lords; so said. gently
II suppose we women all think NOR
than we ought about our looks some
times, Sarah; but after all they are
very important matter to every woman
and make a great deal of difference t.
her life. You know you must be gla'
not to be ugly. Sarah"
Town this was little bit of innocen
flattery, for l did think her very ugl
and thought had never seen he
look so hideous as she did as she stoo
there glaring at me-butI was anxiou
, to soothe her at all hazards. and wa
thankful to see that the bait took.
Handsome is that handsome does,
she sail, less viciousiv: and with a tos
> OF her hea1 $40 left the room.
To be continued.